Thanks for this Peter, you’ve increased my confidence that supporting SHIC was a good thing to do.
A note regarding other social movements targeting high schools (more a point for Tee, who I will tell I’ve mentioned): I’m unsure how prevalent the United Nations Youth Association is in other countries, but in Australia it has a strong following. It has two types of member, facilitators (post high school) and delegates (high school students). The facilitators run workshops about social justice and UN related issues and model UN debates.
The model is largely self-sustaining, and students always look forward to the next weekend conference, which is full of fun activities.
At this point I don’t have an idea for how such a model might be applied to SHIC, but it could be worth keeping in mind for the future.
An alternative might be to approach UNYA to get a SHIC workshop into their curriculum. I don’t know how open they would be to this, but I’m willing to try through my contacts with UNYA in Adelaide.
Thanks for this Peter, you’ve increased my confidence that supporting SHIC was a good thing to do.
A note regarding other social movements targeting high schools (more a point for Tee, who I will tell I’ve mentioned): I’m unsure how prevalent the United Nations Youth Association is in other countries, but in Australia it has a strong following. It has two types of member, facilitators (post high school) and delegates (high school students). The facilitators run workshops about social justice and UN related issues and model UN debates.
The model is largely self-sustaining, and students always look forward to the next weekend conference, which is full of fun activities.
At this point I don’t have an idea for how such a model might be applied to SHIC, but it could be worth keeping in mind for the future.
An alternative might be to approach UNYA to get a SHIC workshop into their curriculum. I don’t know how open they would be to this, but I’m willing to try through my contacts with UNYA in Adelaide.